A collection of channels that connects the conjunctival sac with the nasal cavity, encompassing the lacrimal ducts, the lacrimal sac and the naso-lacrimal duct. [ http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 ]
This is just here as a test because I lose it
Term information
database
cross reference
- EMAPA:19245
- SCTID:280426002
- FMA:61063
- MA:0001295
Subsets
uberon_slim, pheno_slim
taxon notes
chelonians lack a lacrimal duct, and lacrimal/harderian secretions remain in or spill from the conjunctival sac[PMID:7559104]
Term relations
Subclass of:
- organ
- organ
- ectoderm-derived structure
- channel for some secretion of lacrimal gland
- part of some lacrimal apparatus
- connects some lacrimal punctum
- only in taxon some Tetrapoda
- connects some nasal cavity
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